Edward Mujica avoiding disabled list

Sunday

May 4, 2014 at 10:26 AM

BOSTON — Edward Mujica underwent a range-of-motion examination on Sunday morning and was deemed day to day. He wasn’t going to be available during the game Sunday, especially with a day off Monday to continue to nurse his balky oblique back to full h

Brian MacPherson Journal Sports Writer brianmacp

BOSTON — Edward Mujica underwent a range-of-motion examination on Sunday morning and was deemed day to day. He wasn’t going to be available during the game Sunday, especially with a day off Monday to continue to nurse his balky oblique back to full health. But he wasn’t going to have to go on the shelf for 15 days, either.

“This isn’t a DL situation,” Boston manager John Farrell said.

Mujica felt something grab in his oblique while warming up in the bullpen on Saturday — something “weird,” he said. The former St. Louis Cardinals closer has been charged with 10 earned runs in 10 innings pitched this season, and he’s struck out six while walking four — almost as many hitters as he walked in 64 2/3 innings last season.